Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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